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DWP told mother she was too healthy for sick benefits – on the day she died

Husband Mick Amos and daughter Karina Mann, with the letter from the DWP denying sickness benefits to Mrs Amos on the day she died.

Dozens of deaths similar to that of Dawn Amos have been reported. Undoubtedly hundreds – possibly thousands – have taken place in total.

At first, the DWP told us that “lessons would be learned”.

After so many years, I have to ask: What were the lessons these bureaucrats learned? How to deny responsibility for the deaths of innocent people?

In this case, the DWP response is that the decision was based on evidence, including information from Ms Amos’s own GP.

That doesn’t excuse what happened.

Yet it is put forward as the explanation.

The fact is that this woman was entitled to her benefits, and they would have made her more comfortable in the days before her passing. The actual explanation is that a DWP official decided she should live in pain instead.

We’ve heard this story before, and the agenda is clear.

As far as the Conservative-run DWP is concerned, if a person has a long-term illness, they are a “useless eater”, as defined in the ideology of Nazi Germany.

Unlike the Nazis, the Tories don’t actually kill the sick and disabled directly. Instead, they deprive their victims of the money they need to live – so they either starve to death, die of their condition, or take their own lives.

I was writing about this, nearly four years ago.

And nobody has made the Tories, or the DWP, take responsibility.

That is the most sickening part of it.

A mother battling a serious lung condition was told she no longer qualified for benefits on the day she died from her illness.

Dawn Amos, 67, died as a result of suffering chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a collection of lung diseases.

It left her with difficulty breathing, unable to walk for long periods of time, dress herself or do daily tasks independently.

She received attendance allowance from the Department of Work and Pensions to help with the cost of her personal care.

Heartbroken husband Mick Amos, 64, of Masefield Road, Braintree, discovered a letter sent from the department two days after his wife’s death.

It notified Mrs Amos that her allowance was being withdrawn based on ‘treatment, medication, symptoms and test results’.

It had been sent on the day, November 27, Mr Amos had taken the decision to turn off Dawn’s life support machine.

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9 thoughts on “DWP told mother she was too healthy for sick benefits – on the day she died”

High time that those that make these decisions faced criminal law and justice, end of from wca professionals and there contracting companies and fines commensurate to the crime this should not just be limited to the medical side but decision makers and ultimately government ministers and there advisors, you only need a few of them locked up and a suitable candidate for this should be a certain mp for chingford

I had not noticed that!
The problem is, people send these articles to my timeline as if they were new. They NEVER point out that these articles are old and sometimes people like myself don’t realise, for one reason or another.
I have tried appealing to people to be clear about posting old information but many of them pay no attention at all.

Oh Mike, I could cry when I read things like this I really could. I remember only too well the battle you had with the DWP in 2014 to get them to release the statistics of those who died within 6 weeks of being found fit for work. The tories know they are killing people and they do not care. It is tantamount to murder!

” … I was writing about this, nearly four years ago ” and do you remember how the DWP replied to our request to update the death figures – “That was only an ad hoc report – we’re not doing that report any more.” !!!??? And what’s changed? They still refuse to account for those bullied off their G4S-secured premises! What they quaintly refer to as the bonus “Off-flow”- those who we feck off and don’t come back! Where are the whistle blowers?

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